Davis planned to study video of the loss to "see what these guys were doing that I wasn't doing."

"I just got to try to piece it together and figure it out for myself so I can possibly fix it for the 1,500," he said.

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In the 1,000, Davis had a slower opening than gold medalist Stefan Groothuis of the Netherlands, and then lost 0.35 in the first full lap. He slowed in the final lap and finished in 1 minute, 9.12 seconds. Racing against Davis, Dutchman Koen Verweij overtook the American at the finish line in the next-to-last pairing.

"Watching it was agonizing," said Canadian Gilmore Junio, who gave up his spot in the race to teammate Denny Morrison, who took the silver.

Groothuis won in 1:08.39, more than seven-tenths of a second ahead of Davis. Michel Mulder of the Netherlands earned the bronze to go with his gold from the 500.

"I think a lot of people were shocked with how fast the times were," Brian Hansen said.

He and the other Americans fared worse than Davis.

Hansen of Glenview, Ill., finished ninth, Joey Mantia of Ocala, Fla., was 15th and Jonathan Garcia of Houston was 28th.

"We have a lot of depth in this race," said Hansen, who became nauseous after his race. "We didn't show it out there, but we do."

Besides Davis, Hansen and Mantia, Jonathan Kuck of Champaign, Ill., will skate in the 1,500.

"I can't let it get me down because I have other races to skate," Davis said, "but I'm pretty sad about it."